Quotes of: Robert-johnson Keyword

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

Donna Brazile

We have a large pool of talented and educated women, and yet workplaces haven't necessarily changed to accommodate the reality of their lives.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Chief Scientist: I agree with those who say we could launch a pod. Lyndon Johnson: A pot? Chief Scientist: A POD - a, uh, capsule. Now, we would be in full control of zis pod. It vill go up like a cannonball, and come down like, uh, a cannonball, spl...

The Right Stuff

Olson Johnson: [after Gabby Johnson's speech] Now who can argue with that? I think we're all indebted to Gabby Johnson for clearly stating what needed to be said. I'm particulary glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. No...

Blazing Saddles

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

Jack Johnson - On and on

What is the purpose of my life, is it doesn't have to do with learning to let go?

Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static Songbook

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2

Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.

Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

Friedrich List

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

Thomas Sowell

During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, one of Franklin Roosevelt's sons, for a telegram in which Elliott suggested that the Roosevelt family favored Lyndon Johnson.

Robert Dallek

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

Joseph Lancaster

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

Mary Harris Jones

Bruce Baldwin: [Speaking of Walter] You know, Hildy, he's not such a bad fellow. Hildy Johnson: No, he should make some girl real happy. Bruce Baldwin: Uh-huh. Hildy Johnson: [Under her breath] Slap-happy. Bruce Baldwin: He's not the man for you. I c...

His Girl Friday

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

Clara Barton

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.

The Passage of Power

Big Johnson: [flying in the chopper to the roof] Just like fuckin' Saigon, hey, Slick? Little Johnson: [smiling] I was in junior high, dickhead.

Die Hard